#i am not my ancestors

[importantkidspyfarm]

I want a romance set during slavery.

I want to see the love that made us. The love that persisted. The love that bloomed when they poured poison on its roots. I want it.

I don't want to see those people. Or hear those words. It can be mentioned.

I'm sick of people disrespecting the lives and legacy of our ancestors. "I am not my ancestors." You got damn right you not. Because you don't have half the heart to do what they did.

We are here right now because even in what was the worst time of their lives, they had the hope and courage to know that that was not going to be the end of their story or their bloodline.

I'm so sick of the love that got us here always being an afterthought to the trauma.

#romance #slavery #slave romance #black romance #antebellum south #1619-1865 #i am not my ancestors #black love #hope in the dark #love conquers all #american history #historical romance #bloodlines #heritage #stories that need writing #black history #black culture #plantation wedding #jumping the broom

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

oh right, technically i sell t-shirts

i forgot about that

#holidays are coming up and it would make a terrible gift #that's the main selling point #anyways these exist and can be exchanged for legal tender #the cost is the listed price + the emotional expense of knowing that i am judging u #bc i am. i am judging u #why would u want this. why would u exchange currency for this #there are so many other things you could exchnage currency for instead #a grocery store shrimp platter for instance #with the nauseatingly red cocktail sauce that is SO much better than a t shirt any time #hmm chicken picatta at a local Italian Eatery perchance? i am. a big fan of anything picatta #oh oh i know! 3.6 POUNDS OF FRESH OKRA #FOR THE COST OF THIS FRIVOLOUS T SHIRT U COULD INSTEAD PURCHASE 3.6 POUNDS OF FRESH DELICIOUS OKRA #and then --hold on i have a recipe--and then what u do is #so it is basically sacrilege to suggest this but what u do is u skip the cornmeal entirely #my southern ancestors are shaking a wooden spoon at me right now but LISTEN. u skip. the gotdang. cornmeal #instead: wash chop and soak (for 10 min) the okra in a mixture of 1 egg to tblsp water #then coat in flour #THATS IT JUST FLOUR #No cornmeal. i am betraying my heritage rn but I'm RIGHT #coat in flour sprinkle liberally in S&P and FRY that suck in veg oil high heat #until crispy & brown & u hear your arteries clenching in apprehension #so. so yeah #that's what u should do instead of buying this shirt go fry the shit out of some okra #(but buy local and young & tender if u can bc the grocery store is full of old-and-therefore-super-stiff specimens #pro tip (aka grandma tip): if u can't chop okra smoothly with your normal cutting knife then it's too old and tough. #...i mean u probably CAN still fry the shit out of it I've certainly done that before it's just much less delicious #ANYWAY. anyway ANYWAY. shirt. okra. farmers market. that reminds me of a post i made back when we first started selling these dang shorts #shirts. shorts shorts. oh shit i should make a crop top option. #i. i don't Know How to make a crop top option #HUH . . . i need to lie down now and contemplate the constant and irreconcilable limitations of the human experience good night

[madbalalaika]

Happy upcoming Valentine's Day from the Swirly Mosshead :D❤✨

#my second yaoi ancestors that made me the person I am today #one piece #zoro #sanji #zosan #art #fanart #sketch #valentines day

[nell0-0]

Drew this just for funsies, don't look too hard into it sos

More of this HERE

#submas #submas au #subway bosses #tloz fairy submas #clan leader irida #pla irida #kid irida #irida #volo #skull kid volo #sneasler #great fairy sneasler #she's the great fairy of the Cliffs #instead of “hey listen” Emmet's catchphrase as a fairy is “I am Emmet” #and Ingo's is “bravo” #ingo and emmet can shapeshift between fairy and hylian forms #but Ingo forgor #my art #pla #pla au #volo knew what he was doing when he put on that mask #Hisui as Termina #so the lookalikes aren't ancestors/descendants but alternate versions #once back in Hyrule Ingo would go looking for Irida's alternate #he's too used to traveling now much to Emmet's consternation

[clouvu]

Handsome woman

#genshin impact #arlecchino #ever since they gave us arlecchino with her bangs slicked back i have not known peace #everyday my ancestors look upon their descendant in horror because I am lusting over a pixelated french woman

[helmtechnician]

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while Her Imperious Condescension's colonial pursuits never falter, She does take breaks.

And when She stops, So do I.

And, on some rare occasions, when the crew leaves the docked ship to visit a space station,

I get to leave with them.

Onboard the station, they take care of me, as ordered.

I can't function well without the wires anymore.

Doesn't matter, I'm always connected to wires these days.

The mechanics dote on me, and I'm often the most intact of the helmsmen docked for maintenance.

Sometimes I wish the crew would be more careless with me, and give me a chance to fade, like the rest of them do.

But, I know that all She will give me are a few, rare, days.

Spent in my small body looking outside, for as long as She will allow. So I go through the motions.

#i am an awful writer which is why i stick to drawing but anyways I couldnt get this idea out of my head so i had to make it happen. #heres a long ass dumbass comic thing ty #homestuck #myart #homestuck fanart #the helmsman #the psiioniic #homestuck ancestors #her imperious condescension #psiioniic #mituna captor #body horror #gore #blood #violence #ask to tag

[scintillyyy]

also i am a notable court of owls disliker, but i am always wondering about the differences there would have been if snyder had done it as the dickbats story sequel to gates of gotham he had planned. because i think i remember hearing about him saying something about going into families like the drakes too, and this part in gates of gotham #1 sticks out to me

that's tim mentioning a grandfather in reference to the bridges being called the gates of gotham, as you can see:

tim mentions that the bridges were called the gates as a nickname at the turn of the century, but that his grandfather called them the gates too, which we learn is also a reference to the gates brothers who built the bridges. which to me, kind of seems like the seeds being planted for tim's family through his grandfather to have some kind of insider knowledge of the founding of gotham (i'm assuming the drakes would have been a court of owls family potentially). like this could just be a throwaway line, but giving tim a grandfather like this seems meaningful.

i just...i imagine the dick & tim of it all that we could have had. rolling in the deep here.

#now i am a drakes are new money truther #so on one hand i am kind of glad he didn't get retconned into being old money #however. this may have also been up my alley depending idk #i am picturing. a flashback to janet as a loving mother. #weirdness with tim's ancestors #but maybe this would have also canonized cold jack & janet in which case garbage #once again thank you chip for the best janet lore in the world

[magistralucis]

this is the first Space Marine I have ever painted Please Be Kind 😭🤣... during housecleaning I unearthed this old mini my fiancé had as a child and long story short I made him into a teacup, please welcome Brother Connoisseur of the ~*~*~Albertus Regius~*~*~ Chapter

#warhammer 40k #adeptus astartes #space marines #miniature painting #miniature #freehand #royal albert #freehand is so hard!!!! as much as i love gold edged china i think it was a mistake starting with that aesthetic #should maybe have done a more muted gold and not retributor armour everywhere #even better: i should have just gone with pure blue and white porcelain like my ancestors would have deemed rightful 😂 #on a more serious note: does anyone know what era/edition/year this dude comes from? i am a baby fan i know little about astartes #he is not a big space marine he is objectively (i.e. next to a ruler) about 32mm tall and his backpack design is obv. old #there are some other minis we found of the same time period and i will also chinapaint them i think. but later #also discovered some plastic + metal style thousand sons they must be quite old. and smol

[spacelazarwolf]

Gosh not another white european who claims to be from the middle east. 1/16 jew isn't jew! You're just a rude whitey with convert ancestors. Stop supporting white colonialism of middle east.

#ask avishai #goyim be normal abt jews challenge #also lmao my dad’s side of the family is literally brown #like not my distant ancestors. my literal dad #i’m not ‘1/16 jew’ i am 100% jew #as is every single other jew #bc jew is not a race

[undeadswineart]

baddass goblins

#dimension 20 #riz gukgak #sklonda gukgak #pok gukgak #dimension 20 fanart #dimension 20 fantasy high #fantasy high #d20 #digital art #also yeah my headcanon is Pok has a tail #whilst Sklonda and Riz don't #because. that's just what I think. #I have headcanon lore reasons too (but it mostly boils down to their ancestors are from different parts of the Mountains of Chaos) #(so they needed different. adaptations? Pok's being forest based who needed to keep balance in trees) #ANYWAY far too much detail for this silly family picture #I just love the Gukgaks so much #and am rotating them often in my brain #in case the fact that I draw Riz so much wasn't obvious lmao

[4525yaoi]

goofy aah cowboys

#i gave up on this drawin on december and idk why i never posted #so context i was listening to alot of the country album back in december and i thought to myself #what if i draw them as cowboys that would be cool i guess #and then i was like omg what if they are like ancestors or smth #because then we have the mollusk which i also drew them as pirates LOL anyways im cringe but im free #I LOVE MY BAD ENGLISH ITS 4 AM WOOO #ween #dean ween #gene ween #treqaww

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

I love places where I can walk around outdoors barefoot. makes me feel like a persistence predator

#look at me i am pursuing you! i am barefoot and holding a spear and i am pursuing you at a steady pace over great distances!!! #you want to stop and rest but you can't because i am slowly but inevitably PURSUING you #a grim fucking reaper treading softly never tiring pausing only to polish my scythe #anyway there should be more places where i can walk around barefoot and mostly naked i want to honor my early hominid ancestors #so far the only place i've found is the beach #technically you can walk around barefoot mostly naked in a park for instance but that is Frowned Upon i believe

[chronically-ghosted]

me: *consumed with lust, enraged, on my couch yelling into pillows, kicking my feet, gnashing my teeth* “he’s just some guy”

guy in question:

#I am so tired #can I be left alone for two minutes #I was gonna nap and now I was to tunnel through my couch into the center of the earth #comandante veracruz #not me plotting out a oneshot that my ancestors cringe over #why can’t I just pick normal movies why do I have to turn light hearted fun movies into deathly serious fics #just have some fucking joy you psycho #pedro pascal

[darcyolsson]

no one asked but here's a graphic depiction of the way virtually every romantic relationship in tsc is connected to one another

spanning 200+ years , 74 people and 20+ books. romance is beautiful 💛 tsc fans will tell you they hate a love triangle but girl i think we have bigger things to worry about literally what is this 💛

here's a version without any of the parental/ancestral relationships in an attempt to make it easier to understand but......... well

#there's literally not enough colours in the human visual spectrum to depict all of this but i tried my best #you can see the point where i just gave up tying to make this clear and understandable. the jem/will/tessa/tlh/tda connections broke me. #like the fact that jesse and lucie are the blackthorns' ancestors..... i know this means im missing a line between wessa and the blackthorn #but i. i am not strong enough. they dont share a last name so that one im letting go #also very unfortunate i couldnt find a way to include malcolm. he had so many necromancy fun times......</3 rip king #i THINK no one is missing. but i must say even i forget a lot of it sometimes #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #tmi #tda #tlh #tid #op

[nerdyqueerr]

This is Porter's energy to me

#got this off a blog i was blocking and the Ancestor thing kinda got me lmao #i know that i am safe in this world because i keep the Conquest Goddess and the Warriors of my Ancestral line with me every day of my life #and my 2 headed warhammer rage/smite #sure sure he's not rly keeping god by his side he's becoming a god but wtv. shj #fhjy #fantasy high #dimension 20 #porter cliffbreaker #i do rly want ppl to see this one lol

[crimsoncrim]

realized I didn’t show them here, so new ptu/dnd oc! avel :>

they’re a dragon-type elementalist . “kid with undiagnosed adhd born with god powers of a very intimidating pokemon type is actually the least intimidating person you know”

their growlithe is named miso!

#my art #crim's art #oc: avel #dnd #dnd art #pokemon #pokemon fanart #ptu #pokemon tabletop #pokemon tabletop united #original character #im love them i am v excited to play them #they’re lance’s ancestor! but on their brother’s side lmao #setting is hisui-esque so that was my inspo!